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One of the biggest stories coming out of the Arizona Cardinals’ second preseason game last week against the Oakland Raiders was how they were penalized multiples times for clapping before the snap.

Murray was penalized twice in the game. Backup Brett Hundley had been penalized the previous week.

There was talk of moving abruptly and analysis of other quarterbacks and their pre-snap movements and clapping.

When the Cardinals played the Minnesota Vikings today, Murray got rid of the clap, but the penalties didn’t go away. He went with more traditional leg lifts while in the shotgun and was not penalized. However, Hundley was flagged twice. Once was when he fake-clapped, and the second was confusing because it didn’t involve clapping at all. He lifted his foot and was flagged.

Head coach Kliff Kingsbury declined to comment on the calls at halftime, wishing to avoid getting fined.

Last week, after the issues against Oakland, he told reporters, “We’re still working things out with the officials.”

He believed they had come to an understanding and made it clear “we have to be consistent in what we do.”

When Murray didn’t clap, even while in shotgun, it appeared perhaps they simply chose to avoid those problems. However, with Hundley, it became clear things are still not ironed out. There seemed to be one revelation from Kingsbury last week.

“Abrupt motion without the clap is what we’ve got to avoid,” he said.

This suggests that the first penalty against Hundley was because he went to clap and didn’t. That could be viewed as an abrupt movement. The TV broadcast showed a medley of quarterbacks throughout the league clapping multiple times before the snap without penalty. None of them showed a quarterback making a clapping motion without the clap.

However, the second flag on Hundley, when he lifted his foot, didn’t make sense.

Clearly, the Cardinals still have work to do with the officials to know exactly what is and what is not allowed.

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